Poems about Humor

• The Burghers Of Calais

  It were after the Battle of Crecy-
  The foe all lay dead on the ground-

  by Marriott Edgar 78 lines
• Fair Rosamond

  You've heard of King Henry II
  And the story of how he got fond

  by Marriott Edgar 78 lines
• Sam Goes To It

  Sam Small had retired from the Army,
  In the old Duke of Wellington's time,

  by Marriott Edgar 78 lines, 1 comment
• William Rufus

  The reign of King William the Second
  Were an uninteresting affair

  by Marriott Edgar 78 lines
• John Mouldy

  I spied John Mouldy in his celler,
  Deep down twenty steps of stone;

  by Walter de la Mare 18 lines, 1 comment
• Get Up and Bar the Door

  It fell about the Martinmas time,
  And a gay time it was then,

  by Anonymous British 53 lines
• A Nautical Extravagance

  I stood one day by the breezy bay a-watching the ships go by,
  When a tired tar said, with a shake of his head: "I wisht I could tell

  by Wallace Irwin 37 lines, 2 comments
• Jack And Jill

  (As Austin Dobson might have written it)
  Their pail they must fill

  by Charles Battell Loomis 117 lines
• Mother's Glasses

  I've told about the times that Ma can't find her pocketbook,
  And how we have to hustle round for it to help her look,

  by Edgar Albert Guest 26 lines
• The Pig and the Rooster

  On a warm sunny day, in the midst of July,
  A lazy young pig lay stretched out in his sty,

  by Clement Clarke Moore 91 lines, 1 comment
• A Song Of A Heart

  Upon a time I had a Heart,
  And it was bright and gay;

  by Oliver Herford 13 lines, 1 comment
• Fish Riddle

  Alive without breath;
  as cold as death;

  by J R R Tolkien 13 lines
• A Lament

  It induces a sensation
  Of irritation

  by Cicely Fox Smith 21 lines
• My Umbrella

  "Valued companion of my expeditions,
      Wanderings, and my street perambulations,

  by Martin Farquhar Tupper 33 lines, 4 comments
• Oliphaunt

  Grey as a mouse,
  Big as a house,

  by J R R Tolkien 21 lines
• Lament Of A Desert Rat

  I've learnt to wash in petrol tins, and shave myself in tea
  Whilst balancing the fragments of a mirror on my knee

  by N.J. Trapnell 15 lines, 1 comment
• Song

  Gather Kittens while you may,
  Time brings only Sorrow;

  by Oliver Herford 3 lines
• A Woman's Reason

      I'm Sure every Word that you say is Absurd;
      I Say it's All Gummidge and Twaddle;

  by Gelett Burgess 3 lines
• The Rhyme Of The Kipperling

  Away by the haunts of the Yang-tse-boo,
  Where the Yuletide runs cold gin,

  by Sir Owen Seaman 87 lines, 5 comments
• Animal House

  In Animal House (by which title I call
  A dwelling whose true name is not that at all)

  by Cicely Fox Smith 26 lines, 2 comments
• Kiwi

      Fruit without a stone, its shiny
      pulp is clear green. Inside, tiny

  by May Swenson 49 lines
• Analysis Of Baseball

  It’s about
  the ball,

  by May Swenson 63 lines
• Lazy Man's Song

  I could have a job, but am too lazy to choose it;
  I have got land, but am too lazy to farm it.

  by Po Chu-I 15 lines
• Bossy And The Daisy

  Right up into Bossy's eyes,
  Looked the Daisy boldly,

  by Margaret Deland 13 lines, 2 comments
• The Cat

  (Advice to the Young)
  My children, you should imitate

  by Harry Graham 79 lines
• Les Champignons (Conversation Exercise)

  Let us go now and seek mushrooms
  For supper. Stewed with milk

  by Cicely Fox Smith 40 lines, 1 comment
• The Misanthrope

  I think some spiteful fairy
  My natal day did grace

  by Cicely Fox Smith 43 lines, 1 comment
• Adair Welcker, Poet

  The Swan of Avon died—the Swan
  Of Sacramento'll soon be gone;

  by Ambrose Bierce 3 lines
• The Stern Parent

  Father heard his Children scream,
  So he threw them in the stream,

  by Harry Graham 7 lines
• Baby

  Baby in the cauldron fell, --
    See the grief on Mother's brow;

  by Harry Graham 7 lines

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